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The Defining Moments of Felix Gaeta

Feb 15, 2009 13:09

Okay, it's been a week. I've been in mourning over this character, but now I'm feeling reflective. Looking back over the Epic Felix Gaeta picspam by webeh I wrote up a list of my personal Top 20 Felix Gaeta moments (with bonus scenes because there was so much that I found memorable!). This isn't so much a list of "best moments" since it contains many ( Read more... )

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safenthecity February 16 2009, 02:52:57 UTC

1) What are the top three defining moments of Felix Gaeta in your opinion ( ... )

safenthecity February 16 2009, 04:17:09 UTC

I would like to add, as far as defining moments go- and I do not know whether this belongs under darkest or most tragic- the meeting with Zarek. When he asks Tom Zarek "Are you that man?"

I feel this scene just sums up absolutely how turned on its head his world has become. Because Zarek is the one who first authorized Gaeta's execution, and Gaeta knew that. The Circle told him. There is something utterly... heartwrenching, in this moment, that everything around him is falling to so many pieces that this man seems like the best of all his options. This is the man Gaeta turns to, because there is nobody else.

webeh February 16 2009, 04:18:31 UTC

Restaurants shaped like food. Hands down. I cried.

I think Gaeta would have been an awesome architect. He's a regular Howard Roark. Speaking of Roark, don't you think AJ would be a brilliant Roark onstage or onscreen?

safenthecity February 16 2009, 04:22:17 UTC

I admit, I had to look up who Howard Roark was. But, looking over the Wikipedia entry, I have to say yes, yes he would.

But then, I would absolutely die to see him onstage in pretty much anything. He could be up there reading (or singing!) the phone book, and I'm sure it would be entertaining, at the very least.

lls_mutant February 16 2009, 18:53:16 UTC

You know, I don't know if he could pull it off, but I'd like to see him try. The thing about this mutiny was it FINALLY REALLY showed us just how much range the guy's got. (That dream sequence, when he did the ready, aim, fire? That was pretty scary.)

He's not really how I picture Howard Roark. Aside from the coloring, frankly, I think Roark's got a stick up his you know what. (And I say this as someone who can pretty much recite the book.) If I was going to cast him in a Rand movie, I'd TOTALLY cast him as the Wet Nurse in Atlas Shrugged. (Okay, so Tony and Gaeta have a lot in common, so it's not as much of a stretch, but still.) But Roark is actually a little more two-dimensional than some of Rand's minor characters. (I always preferred Franscisco and Rearden to Galt any day of the week.) Oooooh- there's the other role I could see him doing. Franscisco D'Anconia.

YES.

falafel_musings February 20 2009, 19:29:17 UTC

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought Gaeta was heroic over the Miniseries jump. Earlier in the episode they said they hadn't jumped Galactica in a long time and this was a really complicated jump. I loved how they showed how Gaeta was nervous and inexperienced, yet he still sucked it up and did his duty like a pro.

Yeah, I also thought the perjury was more vengeful than the mutiny.

Thanks for responding! So it took me so long to reply.

safenthecity February 21 2009, 02:55:26 UTC

That was a freaking fantastic save, that first jump. It may not be his best moment, but for heroism? Hands down.

The mutiny wasn't about vengeance, in my opinion. They may have retconned it to look like it, but I was, by the end, on Team Mutiny, because I think he was right. The perjury... I think I actually looked at my TV and had a Gaius moment, all '"Gaeta, what the hell are you doing? Liar!"

No problem! Life gets busy sometimes. :)

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